ALBANY – The Bloomberg administration yesterday called on state lawmakers to change a quirk in the law that they say is costing the city millions of dollars a year by allowing injured public employees to “double-dip.”

During a rare trip to the capital, City Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo complained that current law allows injured government employees to collect twice for lost future wages: once through a jury or settlement award that is on top of any disability pension.

In the private sector, he said, a corporation can use the disability pension toward paying any court-ordered settlement.

Thus, if an employee won a $1 million award and had a $750,000 disability pension, the company would be on the hook only for an additional $250,000.

Under the same scenario, a government would be on the hook for the full $1 million and the $750,000.

“Not only does this not make any sense, but a simple change in the law would help out municipalities and not cost the state of New York a single cent,” Cardozo said.